The Internet Society in Netherlands (isoc.nl) has nominated ten innovative and interesting initiatives to receive the Internet Innovation Award 2016. We’re very happy to announce that D-CENT Freecoin is among the nominees. The winner will be selected and rewarded on the 14th of January at the Internet New Year’s event in Amsterdam. Read more +
On the 15th of December, D-CENT was showcased in London for an enthusiastic crowd of 200. The event, titled D-CENT Showcase and Opportunities for UK Digital Democracy was hosted by Nesta, UK innovation charity and D-CENT project coordinator. And we were happy to be onstage to share our insights of our tools and pilots. See full agenda here.
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Text by Pablo Aragón (Eurecat), original published here.
The beginning of the week has been followed by the attendance to the event Herramientas para la democracia: Abriendo la Participación held in Medialab Prado (Madrid). The event has gathered citizens from several Spanish cities and international experts in digital participation in order to discuss experiences on online tools for direct and deliberative democracy. Read more +
D-CENT is showcased at the Big Bang Data exhibition, Somerset House, London. The exhibition explores datafication through the work of artists, designers, journalists and visionaries. Through a data visualization by D-CENT partner Eurecat (Barcelona Media), we try to better understand how discussion build Collective Intelligence. Read more +
Debra Solomon and D-CENT partner Jaromil Roio (Dyne.org) present Entropical consisting of four art works in which the value and dynamics of the exchange of materials in the biological world is set against the abstract value of algorithms and computer calculations. Read more +
Text and pictures: Robert Bjarnason
D-CENT was represented at a panel at the Open Government Partnership summit (OGP) in Mexico in October 2015. Robert Bjarnason from Citizens Foundation took part in a panel titled “Supporting the use of tech for the next stage of open government models”. Read more +
Helsinki is a pioneer in opening all municipal decision in structured open data. This makes Helsinki an ideal candidate for exploring the opportunities of turning each municipal decision into a Social Object. The internet is full of services that have turned various things into objects of social interaction. IMDB has done this for movies, Airbnb for short-term rental apartments, Flickr for photos. Could public decisions act as Social Objects? Read more +
Nesta invites you to Digital Democracy to showcase the development of the D-CENT (Decentralised Citizens Engagement Technologies) tools and to explore the opportunities for the further activity in a UK context.
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/d-cent-showcase-and-opportunities-for-uk-digital-democracy-registration-19422166222
Link to the original article: http://effimera.org/sperimentare-circuiti-monetari-complementari-il-progetto-europeo-d-cent-di-gabriele-toccaceli
L’articolo che qui pubblichiamo contribuisce ad approfondire alcuni aspetti dei circuiti di moneta complementare che sfruttano le più recenti tecnologie riconoscendo al contempo la necessità di evitare che le regole relative all’emissione monetaria siano risolte senza una discussione politica bottom-up. Sono aspetti emersi nel convegno sulla Moneta del Comune tenutosi a Milano il 21 e 22 giugno 2014 (i cui atti sono stati pubblicati da Alfabeta in collaborazione con Derive/Approdi) come anche più di recente, il 3 e 4 ottobre scorso, nel convegno organizzato da Effimera “Sovvertire l’infelicità”. Read more +
D-CENT has opened a brand new tools page! Visit tools.dcentproject.eu to learn why you should use D-CENT and what our tools can be used for. Get to know our pilots and see D-CENT tools in action. Read more +
